Recovering Alcoholic – What Should I Say When Others Want to Drink Around Me?
Question by sayuri_k: Recovering Alcoholic – What should I say when others want to drink around me?
I’ve been sober for almost two years, but haven’t done AA, so I don’t really know the “rules” for how I should live life now.
I don’t mind when I’m at parties and everyone is drinking, but my husband asks me a couple times a week if he can have a few drinks. Somehow, it seems disrespectful or insensitive for family to drink in our own house, that’s where I should be safe. But, I’m not the type of person who will say “no, you can’t!” – it’s not up to me what others do.
He wants me to tell him if it bothers me, though. It always bothers me to some extent, but it’s not like I can tell him to not drink for the rest of his life. So what is my role as a “recovering alcoholic”? Do I just say it’s ok for anyone to drink anytime because I have to deal with it forever anyway?
Thanks.
Best answer:
Answer by flutterby
you have to make the decision to be around people that drink or not.
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